Argentina, unsurprisingly, had no issues with its scrum in its clash against Australia, but it still fell agonizingly short of earning its first ever Rugby Championship victory.
Wolfsburg has the upper hand in its clash with Rubin Kazan after drawing in Russia.
The Crimean War (1853-56), in which France and Britain sided with the Ottoman Empire in its clash against Russia, shattered almost four decades of European peace.
Figes is excellent on the complex buildup to the war, in which France and Britain sided with the Ottoman Empire in its clash against Russia over disputed territories and spheres of religious influence.
His encounter with Lieutenant Commander Ron Rancourt at flight deck control in particular is compelling in its clash of opposites – Rancourt is on high-alert duty 16 hours a day, making potentially life and death decisions.
Lord Owen, the former British foreign secretary and Balkans peace negotiator, has been drafted in to give advice to the board of troubled oil group Yukos in its clash with the Russian government.
Ceuta, another third-division team that overturned first-division opponents, is relishing the opportunity of posting the biggest upset in its clash with the powerhouse Barcelona, which is forced to make the trip to Spain's North African colony to play the game.
The movie actually sets up, with a cool precision, the social mechanisms of sexual pursuit; as David writes, "the filmmakers believe in soul mates forever, and that kind of thing," but it's precisely because of their apparent faith in love that its clashes with the imperatives of desire come through with a surprising poignancy.
Mr. Faisal said the demonstration had originally been called by villagers in the district to support the Afghan government in its border clashes with Pakistani forces recently.
Setting The Jew of Malta in period (the action takes place in 1565), speeding the action with visual and sonic clarity, he makes the play look prescient, reverberating, immediate in its cultural clashes.
